Meaning

3 senses

  1. Causing horror or dread.

    страшныйstrašnyj, ужасныйužasnyj

    grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

  2. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

    horrid weather

    The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.

    ужасныйužasnyj, отвратительныйotvratitelʹnyj

  3. (archaic)Bristling, rough, rugged.

Examples

9 sentences

  1. What a horrid smell!

    ruКакой ужасный запах!

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  2. What a horrid thought!

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  3. What a horrid place!

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  4. She claims to have horrid visions at night.

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  5. The ivy is good because it obscures those horrid cables.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 2
causing horror or dread:
offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to b

Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.

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Forms

horrider/more horrid, horridest/most horrid
Comparativehorrider / more horrid Lesson
Superlativehorridest / most horrid Lesson

regular

Synonyms

44 synonyms
appallingC1awfulA2dreadfulB2formidableB2frighteningA2ghostlyC1horribleB1scaryB1shockingB1terribleA1terrifyingB2terrificB1affreuxalarming
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedhorridness
Derivedhorridlyhorridsome

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
horrendouslyhorribleB1horriblyhorrifichorrifyB1horrorA2horseA1
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